“…2 Resilience in family caregivers of cancer patients Santos LA, Oliveira PP, Silveira EAA, Gesteira ECR, Fonseca DF, Rodrigues AB However, it is important to note that, about the difference of the resilience potential from the perspective of the gender variable, in the literature, the consensus was not possible to verify the difference in the individuals until the present moment. 15 It is emphasized that the friend and the colleague were considered by the patients as members of their family by affective attachment for several years and were FC of the same. The study points out that, regardless of their structure, their links are consanguineous, of alliance, or family life coexistence, that have the function of integrating and organizing the development of their members, and are directly related to the increase of resilience potential.…”